Assessment of Machine Translation Output: A Comparative Study Between Human and Automatic Models

In this study, it is attempted to make a comparison between two common methods of evaluation of machine translation (MT) output (Human and Automatic MT evaluation). Materials of the study have been selected from economical texts. Twenty English sentences and their Persian translation were selected from "translating of economic texts" book published by Payam-e-Nour University. To assess translated sentences humanly 20 Ma students of translation studies participated in this study as evaluators. In order to evaluate sentences automatically, BLEU method of Mt output evaluation was applied. According to the findings of the study both methods of evaluation lead to the same results, however , human evaluation method is more precious than automatic evaluation methods, at the same time automatic evaluation methods is faster and more time saving than human evaluation methods.